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The Star Jones-Barbara Walters feud is back on!!!

Star Jones may have been low-profile in regards to her split from Al Reynolds but she blasted Barbara Walters Wednesday over what Babs wrote about Star in her new book “Audition: A Memoir.”

Barbara writes in the book that she knew about Star’s secret gastric bypass surgery long before she admitted it to the public. She said she and the rest of panelists on “The View” lied to keep it a secret because Star clearly didn’t want to talk about it.

“She decided to have a gastric bypass operation, but then she decided not to tell anybody,” Walters said in an interview this week on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “Then we had to lie on the set every day because she said it was portion control and Pilates. Well, we knew it wasn’t portion control and Pilates.”

In the book, Barbara wrote of Star’s stormy departure from “The View” : “I still feel it might have been easier for her to find a new position if she had left the program in the graceful way we had suggested.”

Star had this to say: “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book,” she told Us Magazine. “It speaks to her true character.”

Star was referring to an affair Walters had with a married senator during the 1970s.

My take: Star is a troubled and angry woman who would like us to believe she is taking the high road in her various controveries. There doesn’t seem to be anything authentic or honest about her and my feeling is that Barbara wrote nothing but the truth.